[W/K] :: Header

  Header \Head"er\ (h[e^]d"[~e]r), n.
     1. One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a
        machine for heading.
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     2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief;
        leader. [R.]
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     3. (Arch.)
        (a) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in
            the surface of the wall.
        (b) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two
            trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends
            of the tailpieces.
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     4. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
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     5. A fall or plunge head first, as while riding a bicycle, or
        a skateboard, or in bathing; -- sometimes, implying the
        striking of the head on the ground; as, to take a header.
        [Colloq.]
        [PJC] Headfirst

  header
       n 1: a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it
            is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with
            the text" [syn: heading, head]
       2: horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or
          window [syn: lintel]
       3: brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall [syn: coping,
           cope]
       4: a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists,
          studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to
          parallel joists, studs, or rafters
       5: a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into
          a wagon
       6: (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
       7: a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the
          shrubbery"

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "header":
     belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, cannonball, crash dive,
     cropper, culbute, dive, drop, fall, flop, forced landing, gainer,
     jackknife, nose dive, parachute jump, pitch, plunge, pounce,
     power dive, pratfall, running dive, sky dive, spill, sprawl,
     stationary dive, stoop, stumble, swan dive, swoop, trip, tumble
  
  

  header
       
          1. The portion of a packet, preceding the actual data,
          containing source and destination addresses, error checking
          and other fields.
       
          2. The part of an electronic mail message or news article
          that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other
          things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and
          time the message was sent.